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Hospital in North West England
The
Royal Lancaster Infirmary
(
RLI
) is a hospital in the city of
Lancaster
,
England
.
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It lies to the south of the city centre, between the
A6 road
and the
Lancaster Canal
. It is managed by the
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
.
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History
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The infirmary has its origins in a dispensary which opened on Castle Hill in 1781 and a fever hospital established in 1815.
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These two institutions combined in premises in Thurnham Street in 1833.
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A larger site on Ashton Road, which had previously been known as the Springfield Estate,
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was bought for £2,471 in 1888
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and, following a donation of nearly £10,000 by
James Williamson
, a local businessman,
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the first building of the new hospital, designed by architects
Paley and Austin
,
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was opened by the
Duke
and
Duchess of York
in 1896.
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The original building is now
Grade II listed
.
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Springfield Hall was retained and used as an overnight nurses' home for the hospital.
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A new maternity unit opened in 1979, the pathology building was added in 1994 and the new centenary building opened in 1996.
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The Huggett Suite, a unit for treating
stroke
patients built at a cost of £1 million, opened in spring 2017
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and a new therapies outpatient department, built at a cost of £1.2 million, opened in 2018.
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Notable staff
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Performance
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An inspection by the
Care Quality Commission
(CQC) published in February 2017 gave the hospital a good overall rating with caring graded as outstanding but with patient safety requiring improvement.
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See also
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References
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